Review: Playing Her Song

PLAYING HER SONG by Kimberly Keyes

Fiction, Contemporary Romance, Suspense, level 4 heat

4****

Blurb: When Julia’s carefully constructed life takes a sudden, demoralizing nose dive, she flees to the small town of her youth. She finds the perfect landing place—a furnished cottage on a private estate in the Blue Ridge foothills. Then she learns the owner-resident is Jackson Tate—her high school crush and, until recently, the source of her greatest humiliation. Jackson, the small town boy-turned-rockstar, never forgot Julia nor the mistake he made causing his one-time math tutor to vanish from his life. Jackson avoids all but the most superficial entanglements of the female variety. Yet one look at Julia and he’s determined to win back the friendship he lost. Julia’s ancient grudge can’t withstand Jackson’s lethal combination of humility and charm. But what about her teenage crush? Especially one not so one-sided after all…

Thoughts: This is a well-written romance but it’s not billed as romantic suspense and it should be since there is definitely some of that going on, especially toward the end. Julia and Jackson were friends in high school and now, thirteen years later, the sparks are still there. But Julia has been burnt by her ex cheating on her and isn’t sure she wants to get into a relationship. But she can’t deny the pull the popular singer has on her. And Jackson feels the same. His past with women hasn’t been good, but Julia is different. Special.

The story is told from both POVs and the characters have real life issues that challenge them. The imagery is nicely done, putting you right there in the story. There is some heat and definitely suspense when you get toward the middle/end of the story. But there’s a HEA that satisfies. Overall, I enjoyed the book and would definitely read more by this author.

Recommended

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